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Squitters: The looseness in cattle

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Bizzum: Another name for a broom

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Shouto: Another name for a donkey

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Rongs: The word given to the steps of a ladder

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Crumpbacked : To be hunched over or to have a crooked back

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Skitterways: To be crooked or uneven

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Gooatish: To smell like a male goat

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Hugger-Mugger: To do anything carelessly or badly

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Dismolish: To destroy or break into pieces

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Drap In: To beat or strike someone

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Snawf: To extinguish a candle

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Slouchun: To walk in a lazy manner

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Nunchun: Food eaten between breakfast and lunch.

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Truckle: Another word for trundle

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Taffetty: To have a dainty appetite

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Midgemadge: To be confused

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Godzend: The name given to a shipwreck

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Linkister: Name given to a linguist or interpretor

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Druss: A slope or incline

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Flustration: To be frightened

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Bugle: The name given to a young or wild bull

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Slappy: Wet and dirty underfoot

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Vizgig: To be empty-headed or forgetful

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Cri-me-gemminy: An exclamation of surprise

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Downarg: To silence someone with overbearing opinions.

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